No appenders found

[Sidharth Nayyar]

Hello all,
I'm new to log4net, so sorry for the really basic question!

I've added this to the web.config of my site:

        <section name="log4net" 
type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net" />
...
    <log4net>
        <appender name="EventLogAppender" 
type="log4net.Appender.EventLogAppender" >
            <applicationName value="LoggingTest" />
            <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
                <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level %logger 
[%property{NDC}] - %message%newline" />
            </layout>
        </appender>
        <appender name="RollingFileAppender" 
type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
            <file value="logfile" />
            <appendToFile value="true" />
            <rollingStyle value="Composite" />
            <datePattern value="yyyyMMdd" />
            <maxSizeRollBackups value="10" />
            <maximumFileSize value="1MB" />
            <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
                <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level %logger 
[%property{NDC}] - %message%newline" />
            </layout>
        </appender>
        <appender name="SmtpAppender" 
type="log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender,log4net">
            <to value="t...@test.com" />
            <from value="f...@from.com" />
            <subject value=" Warning" />
            <smtpHost value="mail-relay.company.co.uk" />
            <bufferSize value="512" />
            <lossy value="false" />
            <evaluator type="log4net.Core.LevelEvaluator,log4net">
                <threshold value="WARN" />
            </evaluator>
            <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout,log4net">
                <conversionPattern value="%property{log4net:HostName} :: %level 
:: %message %newlineLogger: %logger%newlineThread: %thread%newlineDate: 
%date%newlineNDC: %property{NDC}%newline%newline" />
            </layout>
        </appender>

        <!-- Set root logger level to DEBUG and its only appender to A1 -->
        <root>
            <level value="DEBUG" />
            <appender-ref ref="RollingFileAppender" />
        </root>

        <logger name="MyLogger">
            <level value="WARN" />
            <appender-ref ref="EventLogAppender" />
            <appender-ref ref="SmtpAppender" />
            <appender-ref ref="RollingFileAppender" />
        </logger>

    </log4net>

And in my code I have this:
        private static ILog _defaultLog;
...
            _defaultLog = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger("MyLogger");
            _defaultLog.Error("test");


However nothing gets written to event log, file or smtp. While debugging there 
doesn't seem to be any appenders to the repository. So I'm presuming I haven't 
set up my configuration properly. Unfortunately I can't see where I'm going 
wrong - can you see where I'm going wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Sidharth